GOD AND MAN

1. God is without any attributes; He has no birth or death, although He incarnates on earth in human form. Therefore, man is nothing but divine.

2. Every one should have faith in God. But people sometimes worship God and then start hating Him because they lack firm faith. Such people cannot be called human beings in the true sense of the term. Man can attain peace of mind only when he has firm faith and sense of total surrender.

3. Creation emerges from truth and merges into truth. Is there a place in the cosmos where truth does not exist? Visualize this pure and unsullied truth.

4. Seek chances of helping others. Never lose an opportunity of using your skills and enthusiasm for the alleviation of sorrow, pain or distress. Again do not omit or neglect or postpone your own particular duty. Above all have faith that God is with you all times and at all places.

5. The same God is present in all things. You may worship different names and forms of God, but you should develop the faith that God is only one. Offer your salutations to everyone you meet. Even when you come across a beggar, offer your salutations to him. His physical body may appear to be that of a beggar but in respect of the soul, he is bigger. Therefore, offer your obeisance to all because the same soul is present in al. Never consider any body your enemy; never hate anyone.

6. Jewels are many, but gold is one.
Faiths are many, but goal is one.
Cows are many, but milk is one.

7. There is no discipline equal to service to smother the ego and to fill the heart with genuine joy. To condemn service as demeaning and inferior is to forego these benefits. If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the world.

8. When rivers go and merge in the ocean, they acquire the depth and glory of the unfathomable ocean. In a similar manner, when all other forms of education merge with spiritual education, they acquire the form and grandeur of the spiritual education. It is only when your education is combined with penance that there is a possibility of the blossoming of your heart and the enabling of your ideas. Penance does not mean that you should give up everything and go the forest and stand there with your head on the ground. Penance is that with the help of which you can make your thought, word and deed harmonize with each other.